Job evaluation factors

The factors are very different from the managerial factors that job evaluation schemes more usually measure and include the contribution that nurses make in delivering health care, which is a unique feature of this scheme.

The factor plan comprises the following (the factors are not in rank order):

  1. communication and relationship skills
  2. knowledge, training and experience
  3. analytical skills
  4. planning and organisational skills
  5. physical skills
  6. responsibility - patient / client care
  7. responsibility - policy and service
  8. responsibility - financial and physical
  9. responsibility - HR
  10. responsibility - information resources
  11. responsibility - research
  12. freedom to act
  13. physical effort
  14. mental effort
  15. emotional effort
  16. working conditions.